Multiple compartment merchandise display



Nov. 2, 1937. H. MAYO MULTIPLE COMPARTMENT MERCHANDISE DISPLAY Filed Oct. 2, 1936 .il'llllllll v I.

Patented Nov. 2, 1937 MULTIPLE COMPARTMENT MERCHANDISE DISPLAY Louis H. Mayo, Toledo, Ohio, assignor to The Toledo Show Case Company, Toledo, Ohio, a

corporation of Ohio Application October 2, 1936, Serial No. 103,837

2 Claims.

This invention relates to merchandise display sections.

This invention has utility when incorporated with quantities of bulk material adapted for sham display with adjacent separate compartments readily removable in fractional quantities.

Referring to the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary view of a display show case as for foodstuffs or confections;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line IIII, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line III-ill, Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line IV-IV, Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of a secondary partition.

Show case adapted for retail merchandise display has deck I, front molding 2, with transparency riser or glass 3 therefrom as the show case front of plate glass. Receding therefrom and parallel to the deck I is show case top 4 having anchoring means 5 assembling the glass top t With the glass front 3. The front 3 may be held against the molding 2 by spaced clips 5 on inclined deck portion 1. The deck l rearwardly has removable threshold 3, terminally engaging the entrance seat portions 9.

Adjacent the top 4, opposing seat It is provided permitting slide doors ll, l2, to slide by one another for access to show case interior I3. In this show case interior I3, primary partitions I4 have lower edge !5 resting on the deck 1, front edge It for rest closely approaching the contour of the transparency front 3. Toward the top 4 in this compartment i3 and spaced a desired distance from the deck la, a partition i l may have top edge ll extending away from the front 3 toward rear entrance it as permitted by opening of the ,door it or 52. This primary partition It may have rear edge l9 desirably configured against wounding the attendant and of a shape for desired bulk of merchandise between a pair of these parallel partitions i l.

These partitions It at the lower forward end and spaced therefrom are provided with interlocking means or projecting hooks 26 on each side thereof. Remote therefrom and slightly spaced from the edge I'l, partitions M- are provided with interlocking means or eyes 2i.

In cooperation with one or more of these primary partitions, secondary partitions are disclosed herein, embodying riser 22 having lower edge 23 adjacent the deck l5 and desirably back from the inclined deck portion 1. This portion 22 of the secondary partition is effective to conceal the interlocking means 2!! and has complementary interlocking means 24 interfitting therewith. This riser 22, short of the edge H, has receding portion 25 approximately parallel to the deck 55 and spaced from the edge I? of the partition M but of an extent to have the interlocking means 2! therebelow. This secondary partition has complementary locking means 28 for entering the locking means 2!, thereby providing a jacket for bulk compartment 2i below the secondary partition, with the edges ll, it, of the primary partitions as beyond the portions 22, 25, of the secondary partitions, thereby forming a display compartment 28 for merchandise as viewed through the top 5 and the front 3, which quantities it may not be necessary to disturb fractionally in removing sales quantities of merchandise from the compartment 27 through rearward opening 29 thereto between the edges H) of the primary partition. This display compartment 28 may have the merchandise more definitely held therein between the partitions IT at its rearward portion by riser portion 30.

It is thus seen that in this assembly, the secondary partition may be lifted out independently of disturbing a primary partition on either side thereof, and this general display for merchandise is such that it may be a single unit of a desired extent at any location in the counter or throughout the extent of the counter or show case, if in a show case.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A pair of partitions each having seat means inward from two of its diverging edges, and a spacer for the partitions having complementary projections below one portion and at the rear of the other portion of the spacer for registering with the seat means to locate the spacer inset from the partition edges and providing an upward and horizontal clearance with the spacer as a support between the partitions, abutting each partition throughout the common extent therewith.

2. A showcase insert embodying a pair of partitions, each having a top edge and a forward edge, said partitions each having marginal clearance inward from one of said edges terminating in a socket and inward from the other of said edges, in a hook, and a spacer having opposing edges abutting each partition throughout the extent of the spacer intermediate the partitions, said spacer on the side thereof away from the clearance region of the partitions having complementary interlocking projections registering with the sockets and hooks to engage and lock the partitions in parallelism.

LOUIS H. MAYO. 

